Upper Sepik languages
| Upper Sepik | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution |
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification |
Sepik
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog |
iwam1259 (Iwam–Wogamus) abau1245 (Abau) |
The Upper Sepik languages are a family of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by Donald Laycock in 1956, which he included in his Sepik family in 1965. Foley (2005) does not the unity family, but Ross (2005) reconstructs proto-Upper Sepik pronouns.
Ross reconstructs two sets of pronouns for proto–Upper Sepik. These are the default set (Set I), and a set with "certain interpersonal and pragmatic functions" (table 1.27):
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